Friday, April 8, 2016

Uncomfortable Truths

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“10, 20, 50 years from now, no one seeking to understand our
age is going to be searching the tweets that got the most retweets, or the post
that got the most likes. They’ll look for the kind of reporting, the smartest
investigative journalism that told our story and lifted up the contradictions
in our societies, and asked the hard questions and forced people to see the
truth even when it was uncomfortable.”

—Barack
Obama, at annual Toner Prize for Excellence in Political
Reporting,March 28, 2016

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